Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Benson

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

William Williams

The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.

David Healy

The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Roland Martin

Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

John Cole

Private equity firms know you can't wring every last cent out of a business if you want a successful exit - you have to leave some opportunities on the table, some potential to grow.

John Pike

Private companies are in business to make money,

Paula Creamer

People thought it was absurd, ... I heard a lot of things. But you've got to take care of your own business out here.

Toni Sacconaghi

A workforce reduction of 10 to 15 percent (3,800 to 5,700 people) now seems more likely, but may not be enough to satisfy current investor expectations.

David Haas

The swap in principle is well-founded, but as it currently stands, some of the other processors represent higher-growth opportunities.

Bill Ayer

The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive that it has been in the past. It also tells us that we are hitting the mark in delivering customer value.

Kobita Desai

The mobile phone market will see a growth of over 50 percent year-on-year in the next two years. The industry will have 125 million subscribers by the current year end.

Roy Lind

The facility is just too old, and it doesn't meet all the current standards.

Olli Rehn

We should either have the constitutional treaty in force or we should decide how we amend or develop the provisions of the current treaty,

Sergey Lavrov

We think that the current situation permits us to develop this issue and do everything possible within the means of this organization, without referring this issue to other organizations now.

Derrick Brooks

This was about helping the team and putting us in the position to keep a lot of our players here that we currently have and, at the same time, give us something to go get a player that we felt could help us win a Super Bowl. That's the way it's always been when I've done this, a two-way street.

Jim Morris

We expect the current governance structure to remain in place for the foreseeable future.

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Tyler Fleck

The Thunder has great fans, and they're very loyal to their team, so I know they hate me. I'm sure there will be a lot of boos. I expect nothing less.

Dan DiMicco

Now, I don't expect our government to guarantee us low natural-gas prices. I do expect that our government will not withhold natural gas supply that they control.

Mark Rowen

pretty good for a traditional retailer, but for an Internet company, we would expect much faster growth.

Shirley Eaton

Psychologists say don't expect your life to be happy all the time. I go with the philosophy that every day can't be tops. Life is not like that - it's up and down.

Mike Hargrove

Realistically, probably not. (Trainer) Rick Griffin is working with him, and he doesn't expect it to be anything good.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Jim Tharp

Young kids were about a third, parents were about a third, and then the rest was the general audience.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Kenneth Prewitt

are groups not likely to use the Internet.

Edward Lincoln

So there's a different group of people managing the Japan relationship.

Bill Cowher

I've been waiting a long time to do this. This is yours, man. This is special group of coaches, a special group of players and I was a small part.

Kevin Wilson

Things have changed; we have a different group there. We have to put them (offensive linemen) in better positions, and we're going to do that as a team.

Joe Bline

This is a tremendous run for any group of kids.

Shelia Smith

This is the first time we have ever reached the second round here. This is a different group than what we've had in the past, but we still seemed a little nervous today.

Lao Tzu

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

John Orgren

This group of 60-year-olds is probably the healthiest and wealthiest group of so-called retirees ever.

Karin Leary

This group knew they would not be making the trip upstate if they lost today and that was huge for them. They knew this could be it and they were not going to let that happen. They know where they want to go.

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Ho Chen

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

Ben Horowitz

There are no silver bullets...

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Sidney Poitier

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Ben Shapiro

If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea Party spearheaded mass resistance to Obama's takeover of the healthcare industry.

Sandra Sanchez

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

Joe Garcia

What can you say? It's been a historical winter that wasn't.

Andrew Sullivan

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?

Daniel Day-Lewis

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Robert Ballard

You don't let a historic site rot.

Terry Farley

We don't want to make mistakes. However long it takes, we want to get it right.

Rob Hoffman

It doesn't matter who I wrestle. You still have to go out and get the job done. You only have to win by one point. Sure, you'd like to pin, but it's rewarding however you get the win.

Scott Hatteberg

I'll try to mix in wherever I can. That's going to be up to Jerry and the guys. I'll be ready, however they want me.

Robert Gottlieb

Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Robert Toll

Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases,

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Joe Panetta

The increases we're seeing are not just with 4-year-olds. We're seeing increases throughout the system.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Chris Neal

We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.

Bob Enos

We raised $12,000 to get the dog, because insurance doesn't pay for that.

John Gallagher

Do you want performance level one or performance level two,

Dwayne Slay

The talent level is rising around here. It's going to be a surprise next year.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Landon Donovan

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. We have an obligation to do that and most people take that seriously.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Jake Goebbert

(The state tournament) is a different level of basketball. We need to come out a little harder.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Alan Dershowitz

There are many levels of truth.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Suze Orman

Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.

Stuart Pearce

I enquired about getting Shaun back on loan but they said 'no', I don't think they want him to go anywhere.

Jean Chatzky

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

Wesley Hill

We have two options. We could give them the money or we could support or back a loan for them.

Van Chancellor

This is one of the most disappointing losses I've ever been in.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Kyle Wilson

We've had losses this year where we've had to bounced back from, and we've done it each time.

Stanley Chou

Wall Street's losses overnight weighed on market sentiment.

Thomas Reed

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Ray Bradbury

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

John Paul Stevens

Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

Matt Smith

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

Philip Larkin

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Mark Twain

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Evan Esar

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

Phil McNichol

It was an eyelash. Bode would have won and should have won by a margin that would have shocked people.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

David O'Brien

We want to be satisfied the plant's safety margin is not compromised,

Ai Miyazato

I'm a little surprised and very satisfied about (the margin of victory).

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

Danny Nee

Nothing worked. That's inexperience. You need someone to step up and make a play. We have no margin of error. We have to be at 85-90 percent effectiveness. It might be 95 percent to win a game.

Sue Stevens

Things can go very wrong with a margin loan.

James Harrison

We made a statement. We won, that was the statement we wanted. Margin of victory, stuff like that, is nice. But winning and going to the playoffs is our goal. That's what we want.

Bill O'Reilly

In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Arthur Cashin

What the market would like to see is some sign of bottoming and that the market is reacting positively to the past six cuts. The market is heavily oversold and we have a real coiled spring here just waiting for a release.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Robin Li

The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Steve Roukis

At the end of the day the market moves to earnings.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Patricia Myers

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

John Brady

They patted the pocket, ... The thing was they were all together in the room. Once they dispersed, it would have been gone. ... This is standard operating procedure.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Aaron Nida

I was real pleased with his (Larson) performance.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Holly Hatton

It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.

Lee Scott

It was a solid performance, but we can do better,

Rick Carlisle

It was a terrible performance. It's as simple as that.

Daron Rahlves

It's bad, it stinks, a poor performance by the team. It's really a poor showing. Big stage, little performance. I don't know why.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Shaffi Mather

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering,

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Noam Chomsky

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

Deutsche Bank

Excluding this, pretax profit should be up 9 percent.

Pliny the Elder

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Lei Jun

We make our profits through content and services.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Graeme Souness

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Danny Sullivan

I don't really have a range of what it would be it's all over the place.

Alan Hoffman

I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Tamara Tunie

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Mike Jackson

well within the range of what is realistically possible.

Tyler Oakley

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Eric Turner

Summer is the slower part of the year, so we have (fewer) openings.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Ayelet Zurer

TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers want to have their voice heard, so they'll go somewhere else, and everyone goes to TV because their voices are heard.

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Jane Byrne

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

Jane Fonda

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

Jane Fonda

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

Peter Smith

A lot of times you don't know who you're trading with or where.